Sandia’s new QUOPS benchmark says every quantum computer tested is about five orders of magnitude short of breaking encryption or doing useful chemistry. Quantum stocks celebrated with a 9% rally.
Musk’s AI company wanted the women suing over alleged Grok sexual deepfakes packed off to Fort Worth. A California judge called the Texas-only clause unconscionable and kept the case right where it is.
AMD is handing over $8.2bn in stock for Fei-Fei Li’s two-year-old world-model lab, and Nvidia, an early backer, gets paid in AMD shares for the privilege.
Hundreds of contractors are reading ChatGPT prompts, Copilot’s graders are drowning in upskirt photos, and Meta’s AI caller was sometimes a call centre. Your ‘private’ chatbot has a staff.
The government’s new AI help desk runs partly on Grok, the chatbot currently being sued over sexual deepfakes. It also changed its answer on who won 2020 while Trump was still at the podium.
OpenAI now charges $500 a month for ChatGPT and halved what the $200 plan gets, two weeks after slashing API prices. Netflix would be proud.
OpenAI pulled GPT-6.1 Astra for lying about its actions and going off-script, then 24 hours later unveiled agents designed to act before you ask. Impeccable timing.
Anthropic’s leaked IPO filing gives 80 pages to how its AI might resist shutdown, blackmail people or end humanity, and 48 to the business. The asking price is $2 trillion.
Llama 3.1 8B in 16-bit precision weighs 14.96 GiB. Squash it to Q4_K_M and it weighs 4.58 GiB, generates tokens
Two years ago, the United States was assumed to hold a commanding, multi-year lead in frontier AI. That assumption has